North Lynn, Gaywood North Bank and The Woottons

Welcome to our Sure Start Children’s Centre

The aim of all Children’s Centres is to work alongside families, communities and other organisations to support children to flourish and achieve their potential.

Our Children’s Centre offers services to families with children under five years of age, living in the King’s Lynn areas of North Lynn, Templemead, Pandora Meadows, The Grange, Reffley, and both North and South Woottons.

Our Centre is different to most as we do not currently have a building of our own. To offer groups and activities, we use community buildings in the local area, making our service flexible to our families’ needs, and a lot of our support is offered in the home. Our services are available to everyone, but especially for families at times when life is a bit of a struggle.

To ensure that there are a wide range of opportunities available to families, we also work in partnership with other organisations, for example the Library Service, Family Learning and Home-Start. We have links with adult education and the local pre-schools, nurseries and schools. So, even if we do not offer a service from the Children’s Centre we would hope to introduce families to an organisation that could help.

Our groups are open to all and cater for children from their earliest days. Mums, dads and other carers can come along with their children to Baby Group and Music for Babies for non-mobile babies, then to Baby Explorers as their babies start to move about and explore. Confident explorers can enjoy making friends at our Stay and Play sessions. The Bounce and Rhyme Time provided at King’s Lynn library is suitable for both babies and pre-school children. Other activities, such as baby massage are offered both as group sessions, and for individuals in their homes. For full details of which activities are currently offered, check the Centres’ calendar.

If you are interested in registering at the North Lynn, Gaywood North Bank and the Woottons Children’s Centre, call the Centre on 01553 668505 or complete our online registration form.

Our Activities are held at a variety of community venues. To find the venue you are interested in, visit our Calendar page where we have a route finder to provide directions from your chosen starting point.

Our activities calendar provides details of the specific sessions which are offered by your local Centre.

About our staff

Our team includes Health Visitors, who have early contact with families either around the birth of a child, or when a family first moves into the area. They also provide regular baby clinics and carry out or co-ordinate periodic child development checks for children under five.

We also have an Early Help Social Worker, access to our Parents/Infant Mental Health Specialists, Family Support Workers and Centre Support Workers who are able to offer support either in the home, or in groups and activities in the community venues.

Our Speech and Language Therapist has a focus on early communication and language development, and is available to offer advice not only to families, but the range of professionals who also come into contact with the under fives.